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Others can en-flame the passions from different communities. A very recent example of this can be see in the Aug. It was one of the first questions I had about wikis as well. Two ideas jumped out at me as I read your post. You mentioned that the reader of a wiki has a responsibility to help ensure the content is valid. This made me think back to some of our earlier readings in this class about the importance of teaching our 21st century students strategies for recognizing accurate versus inaccurate information.

I am always looking for effective ways to teach this skill. What are some ways that you encourage this in your students? I also thought about our exploration on becoming a networked learner and how it is important to add value consistently when you participate in a collaborative community. I believe our students need a roadmap from educators on exactly how to add that value and what value looks like. I like models, checklists and rubrics myself, but I think others might find that too structured or confining.

Do you have any thoughts on that? Your point about using wikis to accommodate different learning styles was also thought-provoking. I can see how the resource and media rich possibilities of a web-based wiki could provide opportunities for students to interact with different presentations of concepts. You must be logged in to post a comment. The confusion is all the more understandable given that these two sites even look alike. Well, wonder no more.

Wiki was introduced to the lexicon by computer programmer Ward Cunningham in when he created collaborative software that he called WikiWikiWeb.

As reflected in the terms WikiLeaks and Wikipedia , wiki is sometimes used in creating blended words or portmanteaus : a wikiholic devotes a vast amount of time to wiki-based projects.

Similarly, a Wikipedian is a person who enthusiastically contributes to Wikipedia. The word has been translated into a number of languages. In Estonian it is viki ; in Welsh it is wici. WikiLeaks is a site that obtains and publishes secret and classified material in a way that protects its sources often whistle-blowers, journalists, and activists.

If, later, you want to add users, see Adding users to a wiki page below. You can configure the settings for the wiki page library, such as permissions, page history, and incoming links, by going to the library and clicking Page in the header.

If you create a new wiki page and later want to change its title, see Customize your team site. To learn more information about how to plan and create an Enterprise wiki site, see Plan sites and manage users to get some ideas. A full-scale Enterprise wiki should be created as its own site collection. See Create a site collection for more info. Important: The Enterprise wiki is on the publishing tab in the template collection.

The Publishing tab will not appear if the publishing features are not enabled at the site collection level. Your site collection administrator needs to enable the SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure feature on the site collection to make publishing-related templates available in the site. To enable publishing with correct permissions , see Enable publishing features , Features enabled in a SharePoint publishing site or Enable publishing features on SharePoint or On the site where you want to create an Enterprise wiki, click Settings and then click Site contents.

You may be taken to the Set Up Groups for this Site dialog, where you can leave default, add, or change groups. Note: You can configure the site permissions and other site settings for the Enterprise wiki site later, by clicking Share.

For information, see Adding users to a wiki page below. When you first create a wiki, the home page contains sample content about wikis. You can edit it or replace it with your own content.

The easiest way to start adding content to your wiki is to edit the home page and add placeholder links to pages that you will create later. Note: To edit wiki pages, people need permission to contribute to a wiki. On the wiki page that you want to edit, click Page , and then click Edit. Use the buttons on the ribbon to format text, and insert other content, such as pictures, tables, hyperlinks, and Web Parts.

To add wiki links to other pages, type the name of the page surrounded by double square brackets: [[Page Name]]. For example, to add a wiki link to a page named "Project Dates," type: [[Project Dates]].

When you start to type [[ , if the page exists, you'll be able to select it from the list. If the page that you are linking to does not exist yet, you can create a link to the page anyway. After you save the edited page, the placeholder link you just created will have a dotted line beneath it. The actual page will be created later when someone else clicks the link to the page. When you are finished editing the page, click Page and then click Save.

Tip: You can add more content later or change content that you have entered by clicking Edit. If you created a placeholder link, you can later click the link to create and edit the page. From the wiki page that you want to add users, click Share. Enter the names, email addresses, or the alias 'Everyone'.

If you have team email aliases such as 'Engineering', or any other group alias, you can also enter those here. As you enter the names, the server verifies the existence of the user account or alias. To set permissions for the new users, click Show Options. Under Select a group or permission level or Select a permission level , select one of the groups or permission level such as Read, Edit, or Full control. To see the list of all users who are already sharing the site, click Shared with.

When you check out a wiki page, you ensure that others cannot make changes to the page while you edit it. While the page is checked out, you can edit and save it, close it, and reopen it. Other users cannot change the page or see your changes until you check it in. From the wiki page that you want to edit, click Page and then click Check Out. Note: When you check a page out, you are only reserving it for yourself, it doesn't save, download, or edit. You need to choose what you want to do.

Note: To check in the wiki page after editing, click the Check In button. You can add a picture from your computer, web address or from your SharePoint site directly to your wiki page. If you are not already editing the wiki page, click Edit. Click where you want to insert the picture, and then click the Insert tab on the ribbon. Browse to the picture on your computer, select the library that you want to upload the picture to, and then click OK.

You may need to fill in additional information about the picture you are uploading. In the Alternative Text box, type some text to describe the picture.

Alternative text or Alt text appears as tooltip text when readers point to the picture. Alt text also helps people using screen readers understand the content of pictures. In the Select an Asset box, select a library or folder containing the picture you want to insert, Then click the picture, and then click Insert. You may need to fill in additional information about the picture you are inserting. You can use the commands on the Image tab to add Alt Text for your image, change its appearance, and position it on the page.

Wiki pages support the placement of links to other web or SharePoint sites outside the wiki across the top of the page and on the Quick Launch bar.

These links differ from wiki links placed directly on the wiki page by users as they are specifically managed by the wiki administrator. You can also drag and drop links to rearrange them. On the wiki page that you want to edit, click Edit Links at the top of the page, or Edit Links in the Quick Launch bar. Click the Link gadget. Enter the text for the Text to Display field for the link. This determines how the link appears on the page.

Enter the URL address in the Address field. To rearrange links in the Quick Launch bar or at the top of the wiki page, click Edit Links , select any link, and drag it to a new position in its section. To edit links in the Quick Launch bar or at the top of the wiki page, click Edit Links , select any link, and then click to place the cursor in any location of the link text.

Click the Edit a Link tool to edit the contents of the link, including its address. You can use wiki links to link pages together by simply using the page name surrounded by double square brackets. You create wiki links the same way whether you are linking to existing wiki pages or pages that do not exist yet.

For example, if your team will be creating a link later for Training Issues, you can go ahead and insert the link to the page now by typing [[Training Issues]]. After you save the page, the link to your future page appears with a dotted line under it.

To create the page later, someone can click the underlined placeholder link and then click Create. Type [[ and then begin typing the name of the page. The wiki will suggest page names that start with what you are typing. Type a new page name followed by ]]. If you type a new page name, you will create a link to a page which has not yet been created. Your finished page name should be surrounded by double square brackets, like this: [[Page Name]].

If you create a wiki in a public repository, the wiki is available to the public. If you create a wiki in an internal or private repository, only people with access to the repository can access the wiki. For more information, see " Setting repository visibility. You can edit wikis directly on GitHub, or you can edit wiki files locally. By default, only people with write access to your repository can make changes to wikis, although you can allow everyone on GitHub.

For more information, see " Changing access permissions for wikis ". Note: Search engines will not index the contents of wikis.